loopster Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Bought a new lenovo ideapad y510 hoping to install a fresh kalyway install. put the disc in and booted up the drive. installer loads for a couple minutes but as soon as the gray apple logo appears the computer reboots immediately. i also tried the iatkos install dvd. i get to the grey apple logo and spinning circle but it wont go past that. i have tried putting the sata controller in compatability mode in the bios but that did nothing. seeing as many of the thinkpads seem to install leopard fine i am dumbfuzzled at whats preventing the install to work. i would greatly appreciate some help. thanks loop update: well after some experimentation i finally got the installer to load. used cpus=1 in darwin and it finally loaded. went throught the install several times now but i just cant seem to find a working config to install with. ive tried with.without efi, with/without vaniall kernels. everytime i reboot after the install it loads the gray screen for a minute and just hangs there. using -v at darwin it seems to hang right after the MAC framework is loaded. forgot to mention that i am installing this to a external drive but that shouldnt have any bearing on the the problem from what i know.. any help guys?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loopster Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 any help guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerasezi Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Have you ever tried to install on a dedicated primary partition on the internal hard disk? You can also try to install on a virtual machine in Vmware with just the basic drivers and then create a flat image of the virtual disk with something like Acronis True Image, restore the image you've created on a partition on your hard disk (remember when you install to keep the boot sector as MBR). Now you should use Mac Drive that allow you to edit the HFS+ filesystem from windows, and you can copy/paste/delete/edit the .kext files in your Mac directories as long as you know wich are useful for your laptop. Hope i've helped you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 I have the same laptop. Haven't tried installing Leopard in it yet but I can tell you that there's no real point in trying right now, unless your laptop will be tethered to an ethernet cable, because the wireless card, the Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN, isn't functional in Leopard yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I'm going to order this laptop Saturday. I'd like to run OS X on it, but if it's not possible, no biggie. I'm ordering the 2ghz Core 2 Duo version.. do you guys have this or the "Pentium Dual Core" processor? I'd be curious to know if the C2D version does or doesn't require cpus=1. I also have all intentions of swapping out the internal wifi card for a fully compatible one. Anything else I should be worried about with this machine? I guess these are questions I'll find out, but I just wanted to see if anyone else has tried this laptop, or made any more progress with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickmeister Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 To let you know, I am running macosx 10.5.2 Jas OS. I have original Mac OSX DVD - I tried installing using boot-123, and my system hangs after dsm... kext file. I have no ethernet, wifi and system hangs after 5 minutes of going to sleep. If I have wifi on, the USB ports on left side do not work. and if I turn off the wifi switch, USB ports on the left side work. I tried upgrading to 10.5.5 update using combo -- in the middle of update, system died by having the grey screen of death (GSOD). I am using MBR partition for installation and only one OS right now. I hope that helps and if you can help, I would appreciate it. SYSTEM: Lenovo Y510 core 2 duo centrino wifi -- 4965AG 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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